President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 in the President's Office.
President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, which integrated the US Armed Forces.
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce Brown v. Board of Education and integrate Central High School over Governor Faubus's refusal to comply with Brown.
President Kennedy proposed a Civil Rights Bill which President Johnson signed into law as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Martin Luther King dreamed of a world where his children were judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
President Reagan said "Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands."
On December 2, 2025, the current president of the United States, during a Cabinet Meeting, called US Representative Ilhan Omar "Garbage" (she is of Somali descent) and then said about the Somali population: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason, and I don't want them in our country."
So much for judging a person as an individual instead of as a class of people.
Somalis are garbage.
Irish are drunks.
Italians are thieves.
Jews are money hungry.
Asians are sneaky.
Civil lawyers are pernicious, and people from Hialeah are weird. (Ok, some depictions are truer than not).
We have a president who is spouting racist tropes as his way of leading by example. America 2025.
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The Jewish Lawyers Association (new local bar group formed post-Gaza invasion) is hosting an event next week with “Friends of the IDF”. The speaker will talk about how Israel and the IDF did and does not violate international law. Location secret, attendees and questions prescreened.
Every lawyer and citizen has the right to espouse and promote whatever views they have, including on behalf of a foreign government and army, but a lot of prominent local civil law firms are sponsoring this event. I wonder if their client base feels the same way the firms apparently do about Israel and the IDF after witnessing the razing of Gaza and massacre of Gazans for two years, with no strategic gain for Israel whatsoever and the complete tanking of popular support for Israel in America.
Certainly educates me on the values of the firms sponsoring the event, which I guess is the point of sponsorship.
Kinda like how you spent the last ten years calling everyone who disagreed with you a nazi or remember the whole "you're a white male" insult the fat liberal women scream? Stop pretending you take the high road. Being nice and friendly to the left is over. You just don't know it yet.
Ain't easy being an immigration attorney right now.
Sounds good. Nice to have someone using their common sense and calling it like it is
This summer I spent a week in Minneapolis. There is a huge Somali population there. Every Uber driver was Somali. I would say 20 % of the Univ of Minnesota student body that I interacted with were Somali. Many of the airport workers were Somali. I really never met Somali people before. You know what? I found these people to be polite, patriotic and appreciative to be here, hard working and an obvious asset to the region. Now, at the same time I do not like Rep Ilhan Omar and agree that she projects a certain sense of anti American rhetoric, but that is just one person. I am completely offended at Trump's general categorization of a whole ethnicity. We are all children of immigrants. I am neither a fan of the Dems or the GOP so this post has nothing to do with politics. The current POTUS is an unabashed hate-monger ...which can't be good for anything. Don't judge someone if you have never walked in their shoes, I hung out with dozens of Somali men and woman and they made a strong and positive impression upon me. That is the only way to judge
Senator John Kennedy speaks in Congress on (Somali) Fraud in Minnesota, Forbes Breaking News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn8g_bRGqMk
They should call the event "I love genocide."
Might as well turn your clients in.
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